This blog provides stories that Denyse O'Leary, a Toronto-based journalist, has found to be of interest, as she covers the growing intelligent design controversy. It supports her book By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg 2004). Does the universe - and do life forms - show evidence of intelligent design? If so, Carl Sagan was wrong and so is Richard Dawkins. Now what?

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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Legacy media bores us with faked photos

A friend offers me this link to what he thinks must bea faked photo. It looks that way to me too because one gets no sense that the person being hauled away has suffered a traumatic injury. At first, I was a little surprised that NPR ran with it.

But legacy media are desperate. Their aging audience is prepared to believe anything that confirms their certainties.

While we are here, I had been meaning to run with this for some time: If you want to know what real persecution is like, look at this article about the Falun Gong.

ALSO: There are real horrors happening in Gaza. Look at this one (Warning: disturbing)